your view? russia is determined to keep pressing the offensive. they want to take over all of donbas and secure that land corridor connecting crimea, donbas to russia and want to do it by may 9th so putin can claim that achieved something big in ukraine. not what they set out to do but they re determined to do it. there have been easter truces before. since 2014 russia has been fighting against ukraine there and they have had truces like this. the fact that they aren t doing it now shows on the one hand the determination and brutality but also the pressure that they re under to deliver results because this has gone very badly for russia thus far. they have not been able to take over kyiv or the ukrainian government. they had to withdraw from around kyiv and central ukraine. this is the last ditch effort in some ways to make sure they accomplish something that they can present to putin. sandra: we hear you talking